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Lance Alred is a National Security Education Program Boren Fellow who holds two Master’s degrees: one in Russian from the Middlebury College Academic Year in Moscow Program Track studying at the Russian State University for the Humanities and the Higher School of Economics; the other in Global Affairs, Global Issues Concentration from the University of Denver. He also received a B.A. in Global Studies with a Russian Minor from the University of Denver. His education included several study-abroad programs with American Councils for International Education at the KORA Russian Language Center in Vladimir, Russia; the Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg, Russia; and the Kazan Federal University in Kazan, Russia. In 2015, Alred worked for American Councils as a Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX) recruiter in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. He is a former Political-Military Analyst Intern at the Center for Political-Military Analysis at the Hudson Institute under the direction of Dr. Richard Weitz.

Alred’s areas of expertise are Russian studies, information-psychological and cognitive security, hybrid warfare analysis and security management. Recent publications include (1) US Foreign Policy Towards Central Asia Under Trump by Lance Alred, Sean Michael Kelly, Madina Rubly, Yuliya Shokh, Mariam Tsitsishvili, Richard Weitz (Journal UNISCI N° 45, October 2017); (2) The Surviving Generation of Soviet Totalitarianism by Dr. Yurii Ezepchuk and translated by Lance Alred (CreateSpace, February 2017); (3) Putin’s Syrian Policy: “We need to Fight the Terrorists: There is No Alternative”, by Dr. Richard Weitz, Research Assistance by Lance Alred (Second Line of Defense, November 2016); and (4) The Bioterrorist Attacks on America by Dr. Yurii Ezepchuk translated by Lance Alred (Journal of Bioterrorism and Biodefense, July 2012).

Dr. Pavel K. Baev is a Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). He is also a Senior Non-Resident fellow at the Brookings Institution (Washington DC) and a Senior Research Associate at the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales (IFRI, Paris). He writes a weekly column for the Eurasia Daily Monitor produced by the Jamestown Foundation (Washington DC).

Harley Balzer retired in July 2016 after 33 years in the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He was the Founding Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies. Prior to coming to Georgetown, he taught at Grinnell College and Boston University and held post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard’s Russian Research Center and the MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society. In 1982–1983, he was a Congressional Fellow in the office of Congressman Lee Hamilton. In the early 1990s, he was the Executive Director of the George Soros’ International Science Foundation and continues to work with programmes that aid in Russian education.

His publications include Soviet Science on the Edge of Reform (1989); Five Years That Shook the World: Gorbachev’s Unfinished Revolution (1991, which was named a CHOICE outstanding academic book); and Russia’s Missing Middle Class: The Professions in Russian History (1996).

Torbjörn Becker is the Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden since 2006. He is also a board member of the Swedish development cooperation agency (SIDA) and several economics research institutes in Eastern Europe that together with SITE are part of the Forum for Research on Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies (FREE) Network. Prior to this, he worked for 9 years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where his work focused on international macroeconomic crises and issues related to the international financial system. He holds a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics and has published in top academic journals. He has contributed to several books and authored policy reports focusing on Russia and Eastern Europe. He recently co-edited and contributed to The Russian Economy under Putin that was published by Routledge.

Stephen Blank is an internationally recognised expert on Russian foreign and defence policies and international relations across the former Soviet Union. He is also a leading expert on European and Asian security, including energy issues. Since 2013, he has been a Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington (www.afpc.org). From 1989 to 2013, he was a Professor of Russian National Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania. Dr. Blank has been Professor of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute since 1989. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Douglas MacArthur Professor of Research at the War College.

Dr. Blank has consulted for the CIA, major think tanks and foundations; chaired major international conferences in the USA and in Florence, Prague and London; and has been a commentator on foreign affairs in the media in the United States and abroad. He has also advised major corporations on investing in Russia and is a consultant for the Gerson Lehrman Group. He has published over 1,300 articles and monographs on Soviet/ Russian, US, Asian and European military and foreign policies, including publishing and editing 15 books, and testified frequently before the Congress of Russia, China and Central Asia for business, government and professional think tanks here and abroad on these issues.

Prior to his appointment at the Army War College in 1989, Dr. Blank was Associate Professor for Soviet Studies at the Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education of Air University at Maxwell AFB. He also held the position of Assistant Professor of Russian History, University of Texas, San Antonio from 1980 to 1986 and was the Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian history, University of California, Riverside, from 1979 to 1980.

Dr. Blank’s M.A. and Ph.D. are in Russian History from the University of Chicago. His B.A is in history from the University of Pennsylvania.

Victor Gorshkov is Dean and Professor at the Department of International Liberal Arts, Faculty of International Liberal Arts, Kaichi International University (Japan). He received his M.A. in international economics and finance from Khabarovsk State University of Economics and Law (Russia) and Ph.D. in Economics from Kyoto University (Japan). He is a charter member of the Japanese Association for Comparative Economic Studies. He has taught part-time at Kanagawa University (Japan), Keio University (Japan) and Rikkyo University (Japan) and conducted research as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University. His research interests are in the fields of international economics, international economic relations, comparative economic systems and international education.

Petteri Lalu, Doctor of Military Science, Adjunct Professor, Lieutenant colonel (ret.), is a former military professor and the former head of the Finnish National Defence University’s Russian Art of War Group. He has served as a commissioned officer in the Finnish Defence Forces 1990–2020. His military experience includes several positions in Ground Based Air Defence, Military Intelligence, Strategic Research and Russian Defence Studies. Lalu’s research interests include the Russian Art of War and Russian Military Politics.

Satoshi Mizobata is Professor and Director at the University of Kyoto, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research. His research areas are comparative studies in economic systems, corporate governance and business organisation and the Russian and East European economies, focusing on the enterprises and market structure. He is editor of The Journal of Comparative Economic Studies in Japan and member of the Executive Committee of European Association for Comparative Economic Studies. His recent works include the following: S. Mizobata and K. Yagi, Melting Boundaries: Institutional Transformation in the Wider Europe (Kyoto University Press, 2008); S. Mizobata, Diverging and harmonising corporate governance in Russia, in J. Pickles (ed.), State and Society in Post-socialist Economies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); S. Mizobata, S. Rosefielde and M. Kuboniwa, Two Asias: The Emerging Postcrisis Divide (World Scientific, 2012); S. Mizobata and M. Yoshii, Restructuring of the higher educational system in Japan, in J. C. Brada, W. Bienkowski and M. Kuboniwa (eds.), International Perspectives on Financing Higher Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); and others.

Susanne Oxenstierna holds a Doctorate in Economics and is the Deputy Research Director at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). She started her research on the Soviet, later Russian, economy in the 1980s and has specialised in comparative economic systems, institutional economics, labour market, public finance and, after she came to FOI in 2009, in defence economics. In the 1990s and 2000s, she worked as a resident advisor to the Russian Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development for 7 years and participated in many other technical assistance projects for Russia and Eastern Europe. She has published widely and edited the Routledge volumes Russian Energy and Security up to 2030 (2014), The Challenges for Russia’s Politicized Economic System (2015) and The Russian Economy under Putin (2019).

Gudrun Persson is Director of the Russian and Eurasia Studies Programme at the Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI, and Associate Professor at the Department of Slavic Studies, Stockholm University. She focuses on Russian foreign policy and Russian military strategic thought. She delivers lectures regularly at the Stockholm University and Uppsala University and has published widely on Russian affairs, including four monographs. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences and holds a Ph.D. in Government from the LSE, London. Her latest publications include the following: G. Persson, Conflicts and contradictions: Military relations in the Post-Soviet Space, in A. Moshes and A. Racz (eds.), What Has Remained of the USSR — Exploring the Erosion of the Post-Soviet Space (FIIA, Helsinki 2019); G. Persson (ed.), Russian Military Capability in a Ten-Year Perspective – 2016 (2016); and G. Persson, Learning from Foreign Wars: Russian Military Thinking 1859–1873 (2013).

Steven Rosefielde is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Harvard University and is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RAEN). He has taught in Russia, China, Japan and Thailand. His most recent publications include the following: S. Rosefielde, Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: The West’s Paralysis, Crisis and Decline (Cambridge University Press, 2013); S. Rosefielde and R. W. Pfouts, Inclusive Economic Theory (World Scientific Publishers, 2014); S. Rosefielde and Q. Mills, Global Economic Turmoil and the Public Good (World Scientific Publishers, 2015); S. Rosefielde and B. Dallago, Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenges and Prospects (Routledge, 2016); S. Rosefielde, Kremlin Strikes Back: Russia and the West after Crimea’s Annexation (Cambridge University Press, 2017); S. Rosefielde and Q. Mills, The Trump Phenomenon and Future of US Foreign Policy (World Scientific Publishers, 2016); S. Rosefielde, Trump’s Populist America (World Scientific Publishers, 2017); and S. Rosefielde and J. Leightner, China’s Market Communism: Challenges, Dilemmas, Solutions (Routledge, 2017).

Madina Rubly received her M.A. in Global Affairs from Rice University and received special recognition for her capstone project titled, “Russia’s Nuclear Modernization: A Quest for Nonproliferation”. This project assessed changes in Russia’s foreign policy, nuclear weapons production and implications of a nuclear arms race, compliance with international non-proliferation treaties, overcoming barriers to non-proliferation, competition in both cyber and outer-space, and ultimately examines Russian and American perceptions on strategic challenges in the post-Cold War world.

Rubly has co-authored articles and contributed to several books and policy reports focused on the transformation of the European political landscape, Sino-Russian relations and the security environment in the MENA region and Central Asia. Her areas of expertise include the US–Russia–China relations, energy and geopolitics, nuclear security, cybersecurity, new technologies, counterterrorism, risk management and crisis management. Her most recent article is Russian Weapons in Turkey: A Trojan Horse? (Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service, March 2020). Rubly has studied and worked in Almaty and Moscow, St. Petersburg, San Diego, Washington D.C. and Houston. She is a member of the James Baker’s Institute for Public Policy and the World Institute for Nuclear Security.

Andrei P. Tsygankov is Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the San Francisco State University. Tsygankov is a contributor to both Western and Russian academia. In the West, he co-edited collective projects, most recently, The Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy (2018). His published books include Russia’s Foreign Policy (five editions since 2006), Russophobia (2009, also published in Russia), Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin (2012, also published in China), The Strong State in Russia (2014), The Dark Double (2019) and Russia and America (2019), as well as many journal articles. In Russia, his best known books are Modern Political Regimes (1996), Russian Science of International Relations (2005, co-edited with Pavel Tsygankov, also published in Germany and China) and Russian International Theory (two editions since 2013). Tsygankov is a member of Valdai Club. He has delivered talks at various international forums, consulted various publishers and state agencies and served as Program Chair of the International Studies Association (ISA), 2006–2007. ISA has over 6,000 members in North America and around the world and is the largest scholarly association in this field.

Judy Twigg is a Professor of Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she teaches courses on global health, international political economy and Russian politics. She is also a Senior Associate (non-resident) with the Russia & Eurasia Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC; consultant for the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank; consultant for the Office of Verification and Evaluation of the Inter-American Development Bank and Adjunct Professor at the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Twigg’s works focus on issues of health, human capital and health systems reform in Eurasia as well as evaluations of human development and public sector management development assistance projects globally. She has performed extensive programme evaluations on health sector reforms and HIV/AIDS interventions based on the field work in Russia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Macedonia and Lesotho. She has been a consultant for John Snow, Inc., UNICEF, the Eurasia Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. Her most recent publications have analysed health reforms in post-Maidan Ukraine, with a specific focus on the response to the outbreak of polio in the summer of 2015 and on its recently passed landmark health system reform legislation; Russian “brain drain”; and Russia’s attempted emergence as a global health leader. Twigg has testified as an expert witness before the U.S. Congress and has been a member of several congressional and other high-level advisory groups on Russian affairs. She was a 2005 recipient of the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award. She holds a B.S. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University, an M.A. in Political Science and Soviet studies from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in Political Science and Security Studies from MIT.